Associate Director of Operations

Job Description

Job Title: Associate Director of OperationsHours: Monday- Friday 9am-5pm (37.5 hours a week)Trust Location: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHSWould you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other If you answered yes, The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS is the place for you.About the TrustThe Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS trust plays a huge part in west Essex and east and north Hertfordshires way of life.The trust runs a busy hospital, The Princess Alexandra Hospital and provides services at St. Margarets Hospital and Herts and Essex Hospital. Together serve a population of around 350,000 people.What youll be responsible for:

• Provide leadership, support, and direction, working collaboratively internally and across system partners, setting clear objectives to ensure services and working arrangements are designed to deliver integrated patient focussed care and enable deliveryof the Trust strategy.
• Lead, develop and motivate the senior staff to deliver innovative high quality, patient centred performance; ensuring that effective appraisal, development, and succession planning arrangements are in place.
• Ensure clinical services and clinical management is responsive to the needs of patients, visitors, and staff and that there is a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Deliver all the mandated performance targets in service delivery within the agreed resources, in line with the agreed annual business plan, and Trust strategies and policies
• Make and foster connections between divisions to enhance integrated working and care pathway approaches
• Show a commitment to working in ways that demonstrate our values in all we do.
• Translate the Trust corporate strategy into a clinical service strategy for the Division ensuring national/regional best practice is leveraged and there is alignment across other Divisional and Trust-wide plans.
• Engage and collaborate with peers, stakeholders, and staff to develop a robust service improvement programme to deliver the expected patient safety and financial outcomes/benefits

Youll learn the following whilst working at the trust:

1. An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS
2. Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times
3. A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation

Youll have the following skills/experience:

• Educated to masters level or significant management experience
• Previous experience at Senior Manager level
• Evidence of CPD plus postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience
• Appropriate professional management qualification
• Experience of managing complex services and teams.
• Detailed understanding and experience of operational management of an acute hospital services.
• Detailed knowledge of Clinical Governance and Risk Management
• Ability to balance strategic and operational management
• Proven ability to manage change, service activity and development within complex organisations.

Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills. As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

• Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
• Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
• Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
• Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your "My Bank" shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
• Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
• Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more
• Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us
• Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

Who are NHS Professionals We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and controlto our members.As an equal opportunities organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity,religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.Apply TodayBy joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.Disclaimer Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear fromus within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion. NHS Professionals manage your data, please see our Privacy Notice on our website.